Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-04-07

FORMAL complaint has been made to the
'Civil-Service Commission against Collec
tor Seeburger, of Chicago, charging hin
with violation of the law. He will have
hearing about April IL.
SENTIMENT in Canada is reported TO b,
crystalizng strongly against the govern
ment's Anti-Balt bill 1t is claimed tina
the measure will prove more detrimental
to Canada than to Americans.
ALFRED SMITH, convicted of murder in
the second degree, at Cleveland, O., was
sentenced on the 29th to the penitentiary
for life. A smile overcame his face as the
judge pronounced the decree of the court
A MEETING of fishing vessel owners ant
shippers was held at Gloucester, Mass.
on the Goth, and an important letter wa:
read, intended for President Cleveland!
perusal. 1t pertained to matters apropo
of retaliation measures.
RICHARD z. Fox has notified Messrs
Bush and Colt, the owners of the Coronet
and the Dauntless, that he Will, upon re
ceipt of their approval, offer 5000 cup
for return race between the yachts from
.Fastnet, Ireland, to Sandy Hook, N. j.
NJ. ANTOINE, member of the Reichsta!
from Alsace-Lorraine, has been expelled
from that country by the German Govern
ment and escorted across the frontier
His expulsion has greatly incensed tn,
populace of Paris and France generally.
BARON De STRIVE, the Russian Min
lister, accompanied by Secretary Bayard
paid farewell visit to the President OF
the goth prior to sailing for Russia. 1t is
said at the Department of State that the
minister goes to Russia on leave of alb
sence to visit his family.
REV. RAY PALMER, secretary of the
American Congregational Union, died a
Newark, N. j., on the Goth, aged seventy
nine. He was born in Rhode Island and
graduated from Yale college in 1890 He
was author of the well-known hymn, ''My
Faith Looks Up to Thee
A MOB attacked and broke the windows
In the employment registries in Quarter
des Halles, Paris, on the 2Sth. Louise
Michel participated in the riotous demon
stration, but she was menaced by a
market woman and compelled to take
refuge in the police station
AMONG the warrants issued by the
Treasury Department on the Goth was one
for $50, 900 in favor of the board of man.
ayers of the National Home for Disabled
Volunteer Soldiers, to be used in the cree
ton of branch home for disabled volun-
teer soldiers west Of the Rocky Noun
tains.
SECRETARY WHITNEY has approved tn
report of the board appointed to select the
sites for the two new dry docks au-
thorizcd by the last;Congress. The do cks
will be located at tn e New York and Nor
folk yards, and will be built by contract
on the general plan of the Simpson dry
docks.
COMMISSIONER SPARKS of the General
Land Office has issued an order creating
a contest board to which all contest cases
now pending, or hereafter arising, in the
presumption and public lands divisions,
shall be referred for examination and de
cision- After action is taken by this
board upon a contest case, it will go to the
Board of Review.
TIRE Postmaster-General has issued a
circular letter to postmasters calling at
tention to the advantages of the special
delivery system and urging them to com.
mend its use to the public as worthy OF
confidence. Its value, he says, will grow
with the growth of it's business, every in
crease of patronage bringing with it the
means of increased efficiency.
The Secretary of the Treasury has re-
ceived a letter from the Alaska CONNER
cial Company complaining that private
parties are taking seals in the water
about Alaska, and asking that ''more
revenue cutters be sent for their protec-
ton" The letter states that between 49,
600 and $4,000 skins have been taken dur
ing theyear by outside parties.
CossMANDEs CHADWICK, who has been on
duty as naval attache Of the American
legation in London, arrived in Washing
ten on the Both, and reported at the Naval
Department. His business is to consult
with the department in reference to the
construction Of the new 6,0o0- ton armored
vessels for which he has been collecting
plans and information in Europe.
CHARLES SrEIDEL, the booh-keeper Of
Werner & Co., New York, who mis-
appropriated sl3, 414, was on the
2Sth sentenced to five years in
cred a period OF five years, and
his methods were many and various. He
was an associate of bank teller who re-
Gently fed to Canada with large sum.
THE Lighthouse Board has completed
the plan for lighting the Bartholdi statue
of Liberty on Redloe's Island. A strong
lens will be placed in the torch, five addi-
tional electric lights will be placed around
the base, making thirteen Of such lights
in all, and a number of incandescent
lights will be placed in the interior OF the
statue. The light to be placed in the
torch will be one Of the most powerful
fixed lights in the world.
The engrosSiug clerks of Congress,
careful as they are, occasionally make
errors which cause the accounting Of
ficers no end of trouble In the Naval
Appropriation bill for the next fiscal
year the following item Ks written: 'Con-
tingent marine corps-furniture for
government horses and repairs fer same"
OF course, houses are meant, but the eX-
act accounting officers do not know in
what way to get around the HORSE" the
word being written so plainly that no eff
fort of the imagination could trans form 1t
into "houses."
CAPTAIN RUsH r. WALLACE, Of the navy,
who was stationed at st. Louis for sew
eral years as inspector of the lighthouse
district, and while there married Miss
Patterson of that city, has just been given
an important command. He has, for some
time, been captain of the yard at the navy
yard at Washington, having remained
in charge after the retirement of the
former commandment, Admiral Queen He
has now been regularly detailed by the
Secretary of the Navy as eommandant of
the yard, which office he will permanent
" fill under the new regime which makes
the Washington yard an ordnance foun-
dry,